Unbeaten US Triple Crown winner Justify (Scat Daddy) made a tremendous start to his stud career with his first crop.
In the Southern Hemisphere, Justify ended the 2022-2023 season as Australia’s Leading First Season Sire, while the chestnut’s first Northern Hemisphere crop was headed by the Gr1 winners Arabian Lion (Woody Stephens Stakes) and Aspen Grove (Belmont Oaks).
However, Justify’s second Northern Hemisphere crop, now two, is looking potentially even better with this crop already including by Saturday’s brilliant Gr1 Native Trail Dewhurst Stakes winner City Of Troy.
City Of Troy wins Gr1 Native Trail Dewhurst Stakes (Pic – Racing TV)
The latter looks likely to be crowned a Cartier Champion later this year.
He has drawn comparisons with none other than Frankel, having won his three starts by an aggregate of twelve and a half lengths.
At the time of writing, the exceptional City Of Troy (an impressive winner of the Gr2 bet365 Superlative Stakes back in July) is one of seven stakes winners to have emerged from Justify’s second Northern Hemisphere crop.
This crop has also produced the Gr1 winning fillies Opera Singer (Qatar Prix Marcel Boussac) and Just F Y I (Frizette Stakes), as well as the graded/group stakes winners Buchu, Hard To Justify and Ramatuelle.
Justify, who is inbred to the South African champion Hawaii, has covered plenty of mares by Galileo, with this cross having yielded the aforementioned four stakes winners headed by City Of Troy, while Galileo’s sire Sadler’s Wells is broodmare sire of the aforementioned Opera Singer.
Sire of five Gr1 winners in his first two Northern Hemisphere crops, Justify, whose son Gasper De Lemos ran second in Saturday’s Gr3 Ghaiyyath Zetland Stakes, is currently responsible for 21 stakes winners.
He is also continuing the impressive record that sire sons of the much missed Scat Daddy are enjoying. The Coolmore Stud based Scat Daddy son No Nay Never, whose flagbearers include Breeders’ Cup winner Meditate and outstanding two-year-olds Little Big Bear and Blackbeard, has been responsible for more than 50 stakes winners thus far including 2023 group winners Array, Les Pavots, Matrika and Lake Forest.
No Nay Never’s dual Gr1 winning son Ten Sovereigns continued his sire line’s hot streak when his first-crop son Inquisitively won Friday’s Gr3 Newmarket Academy Godolphin Beacon Project Cornwallis Stakes at Newmarket.
Another son of Scat Daddy, the now Japan domiciled Caravaggio, is the sire of 2021 Gr1 Diana Stakes winner Whitebeam as well as this year’s Gr1 Juddmonte Cheveley Park Stakes winner Porta Fortuna, while Scat Daddy’s Gr1 Phoenix Stakes winning son Sioux Nation has come up with eight group winners from his first two crops, including Friday’s Gr2 Thoroughbred Industry Employee Awards Challenge Stakes winner Matilda Picotte.
